This is kinda cool. It is a flash (I presume) doohickey that presents a detailed interactive timeline of internet memes.
Click here. Pass it on. To everyone you know.
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You can see it better, as well as add more hits (wiki-style) here. And internet memes are questionnaires that people tag each other to do. These are fads or hits, not memes.
Tomorrow, the NCSE will release a response to Ray Comfort's tricked-out version of Darwin's Origin of Species.
I got a sneak preview of the web site and if you are good, I can let you see it too.
(a GLB exclusive!)
First, you need to go here and click around and get interested in dopplegangers.…
Nature, in the course of editorialising on the vast waste of money that is the US return to the moon plan (although they don't say that), sez, making the analogy with the return to the South Pole in the IGY:
since humanity's return to the South Pole, Antarctic science has been central to the great…
Have you ever noticed that when you drive by a car whose hazard lights are blinking, something doesn't look quite right? You know those blinking hazard lights are really on the car, but they seem off, somehow. Part of what might be going on is something called the flash-lag effect. Take a look…
That's awesome. It's not flash either, whoever made that is an ajax god!
And I was just about to head to bed... That was about two hours ago...
Sadly he doesn't list the begging of the use of the word "troll" nor the origin of "spam." (I remember the latter as around 1984 on Usenet with people soon thereafter posting ASCII pictures of SPAM. I used to have a tape drive of all the USENET archives from around the late 70's through I think '88 somewhere. Although I'm sure it's decayed and unreadable by now.
That is really cool. It takes me way back to high school and all of the funny stuff that we used to pass on. Remember when it was a novel thing to find something really funny and viral on the internet. Now it seems like I get a new one once a week.